Continental Dialogue Meeting
October 27-28, 2009
Fort Mason Center -- San Francisco, CA

Meeting Summary

• October 2009 Meeting Summary

Meeting Materials

• Final Participant List
• Meeting Flip Chart Notes
• Steering Committee Roster
• Workgroup Update

Presentations

• Introductions and Pathways in the West
  Steve Seybold, USFS, Pacific Southwest Research Station

Panel #1: Impacts of Firewood Movement and Efforts to Reduce Impact

• Rocky Mountain perspective
  Bill Jacobi, Colorado State University
• Golden Spotted Oak Borer: A California Terminator
  Steve Seybold, USFS, Pacific Southwest Research Station
• State forester perspective on issue – (No PowerPoint)
  Ian MacFarland, Northeastern Area Association of State Foresters
• Don’t Move Firewood Website: A Tool for Slowing the Spread
  Leigh Greenwood, The Nature Conservancy

Panel #2: P. ramorum Movement to Distant States and Leaking into the Environment

• Overview of extent of P. ramorum spread
  Steve Oak, USFS
• East coast perspective on issue
  Christel Harden, Clemson University
• West coast perspective on issue
  Dan Hilburn, Oregon Department of Agriculture
• Industry perspective on issue
  Karen Suslow, Hines Nursery

Panel #3: State Action to Address Non-Federally Regulated Pests

• Walnut/1000 canker
  Doug LeDoux, Missouri Dept. of Agriculture
• Puccinia/ohia rust
  Lloyd Loope, USGS Haleakala National Park
• Hemlock woolly adelgid
  Ken Rauscher, Michigan Dept. of Agriculture

Panel #4: Solid Wood Packaging as a Pathway – ISPM 15 as a Tool

• Recent economic study
  Frank Lowenstein, The Nature Conservancy and Mike Springborn, UC Davis
• Experience at the ports
  David Talpas, Customs and Border Protection
• State perspectives
  Shashank Nilakhe, Texas Department of Agriculture

Panel #5: Outreach and Education: Dealing with a Skeptical Public

• Sudden Oak Death in Oregon
  Alan Kanaskie, Oregon Department of Forestry
• Asian Longhorned Beetle in Massachusetts – (No PowerPoint)
  Colin Novick, Greater Worcester Land Trust
• Light Brown Apple Moth in California – (No PowerPoint)
  Helene Wright, State Plant Health Director, USDA APHIS